But the biggest roadblock to Ohio State's
national championship hopes this season is the music class.
Despite Notre Dame boasting an 8 - 3 overall record and # 22 overall ranking, the betting public is overwhelmingly in favor of Andrew Luck and the # 6 Cardinal covering at home and keeping their slim
national championship hopes alive.
For those 30 minutes Michigan outgained, outtackled, outblocked and outcoached Notre Dame out of
any national championship hopes.
The Gamecocks were expected to lose, and while
their national championship hopes are almost certainly dashed, they were a huge longshot anyhow.
Not exact matches
Upstart Findlay Prep won the first edition of what ESPN
hopes will be a
national high school
championship, but with its victory comes questions about the entire enterprise
The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the
hope of reaching their second
national championship game since 2012.
Young spies tell me that marbles are rarely played these days, except by a few hot - shots who practice assiduously in
hopes of advancing through local, regional and state contests to the
national championships, sponsored, of course, by some adult group or other.
A week after dropping out of the
national title race, Georgia's SEC
championship hopes were essentially vanquished.
James Brown profiles the Oklahoma City Thunder and all - star forward Kevin Durant, who starts for an NBA team that's drawing
national attention and putting
hope in the Heartland for an NBA
championship.
But at
Hope, a parental choice student voucher school that is making a significant difference in the lives of students, families and their community, the stakes for these recruits are bigger than a
national basketball
championship.